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29 June 2017 • 07:18 AMT
Israel hits Syria army after new stray mortar fire

Benjamin Netanyahu had been visiting the Israeli settlement of Katzrin, further south in the Golan, at the time of the exchange of fire.

29 June 2017 • 07:09 AMT
Russia vows to respond ‘with dignity’ if U.S. mounts Syria strike

“I expect that our partners in the region – American, European – will also have an open and comprehensible approach,” Lavrov said.

29 June 2017 • 07:07 AMT
“This Is Us” ups two actors to series regulars for season 2

Actors Jon Huertas and Alexandra Breckenridge have been promoted to series regular after playing recurring characters Miguel and Sophie respectively.

29 June 2017 • 07:02 AMT
U.S. to toughen airline security without laptop ban expansion

Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly said evolving terror threats made it imperative to raise overall security standards.

29 June 2017 • 06:57 AMT
Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell in “Bad Moms Christmas” red band teaser

The three moms overcome their stresses with a lot of drinking and cursing. They plan to make their own traditions and take back Christmas, until their moms arrive.

29 June 2017 • 06:51 AMT
Armenian wrestlers win three medals at Junior European Championships

Hovhannes Maghakyan lost to Russia’s Magomedamin Dibirov and took the silver on the last days of the free style event.

29 June 2017 • 06:33 AMT
U.S. senators want military ban on Kaspersky Lab products

Kaspersky Lab confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that FBI agents have had “brief interactions” with some of its U.S. employees.

29 June 2017 • 06:24 AMT
Happy birthday: Apple’s iPhone turns 10

“The business model for year one of the iPhone was a disaster,” Tony Fadell, one of the Apple developers of the device, said.

29 June 2017 • 06:14 AMT
UN agrees deep cuts to peacekeeping budget

Under the deal agreed by a budget committee, the United Nations will spend $7.3 billion on peacekeeping in the coming year.

28 June 2017 • 15:52 AMT
ITV, Amazon team for new “Vanity Fair” adaptation with Olivia Cooke

Amazon and ITV have joined forces on the seven-part small-screen version of the book by William Makepeace Thackeray.

28 June 2017 • 15:40 AMT
Oliver Stone’s “The Putin Interviews” picked up internationally

“The Putin Interviews” went out on Showtime in the U.S. earlier this month over four nights and was simulcast on Sky in Britain and Germany.

28 June 2017 • 15:17 AMT
Elle Fanning turns her dream into reality in new “Leap!” trailer

The trailer and the movie centers on an 11-year-old orphaned girl who lives in Brittany and moves to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a dancer.

28 June 2017 • 15:01 AMT
Armenia’s Yelk vows to do its best to prevent president from becoming PM

Armenia’s Yelk bloc will do its best to prevent president Serzh Sargsyan from becoming prime minister in 2018, Aram Sargsyan said.

28 June 2017 • 14:51 AMT
“The Greatest Showman” new trailer features Hugh Jackman

The trailer offers a first look at P.T. Barnum (Hugh)’s circus which features a montage of dancing sequences and high-flying circus acts.

28 June 2017 • 14:38 AMT
North Korea threatens to kill South’s ex-president

“We declare at home and abroad that we will impose death penalty on traitor Park Geun Hye,” a statement said.

28 June 2017 • 14:25 AMT
Iraqi retakes two Mosul neighborhoods from Islamic State

The army’s 16th infantry division captured Hadarat al-Saada and al-Ahmadiyya, northwest of the historic Grand al-Nuri Mosque.

28 June 2017 • 14:10 AMT
Getty Center exhibit features rarely seen works by David Hockney

“Happy Birthday, Mr. Hockney: Self – portraits” presents a selection of drawn and photographic self-portraits made over the past six decades.

28 June 2017 • 13:59 AMT
At least 8 Azeri soldiers killed in Karabakh’s punitive action: Armenia

“According to the information we have, none of those eight soldiers have been buried so far,” the defense minister said.

28 June 2017 • 13:47 AMT
Max Beckmann’s “Birds’ Hell” tops Christie’s £149.5 mln London sale

The sale was packed with highlights, including Femme écrivant (Marie-Thérèse) by Pablo Picasso.

28 June 2017 • 13:30 AMT
Moscow urges international action to combat cyber crime

The cyber attack caused no serious problems at a corporate or state level in Russia, Peskov also told a conference call with reporters.

28 June 2017 • 13:26 AMT
30 civilians reportedly killed in air strikes on IS-held area of Syria

The strikes hit an area 20 kilometres (12 miles) east of Mayadeen, the town where the prison bombing took place.

28 June 2017 • 13:25 AMT
Lana Del Rey previews new song “Cherry”

Del Rey’s album has so far been preceded by lead single “Love”, her title-track and Weeknd collaboration and “Coachella – Woodstock In My Mind”.

28 June 2017 • 13:18 AMT
Ed Sheeran announces massive EU stadium tour

“You might expect Sheeran to be overwhelmed at any point during a show this massive, but he isn’t,” NME wrote in a review of his Glastonbury set.

28 June 2017 • 13:14 AMT
China oil company suspends fuel sales to North Korea – sources

A source said CNPC decided to put fuel sales on hold “over the last month or two” and described it as a “commercial decision”.

28 June 2017 • 13:03 AMT
Brexit to leave 20 bn euro hole in EU budget, commissioner says

Guenther Oettinger of Germany called on the bloc to improve the efficiency of its spending in the wake of Brexit in March 2019.

28 June 2017 • 12:55 AMT
EU extends Russia sanctions until January 2018

France and Germany cited no progress in efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict in Ukraine that has killed more than 10,000 people.

28 June 2017 • 12:43 AMT
Citizen Observer submitted 96 complaints over Armenia elections

The complaints are related to numerous violations of objective and subjective electoral right registered by citizen observers.

28 June 2017 • 12:38 AMT
Paddington Bear creator Michael Bond dies at 91

The character, a bear from Peru who comes to live in London, went on to inspire a series of books, an animated TV series and a successful 2014 film.

28 June 2017 • 12:12 AMT
NATO’s Stoltenberg says non-U.S. 2017 defence spending to rise 4.3%

European NATO allies and Canada will increase defence spending this year by 4.3 percent, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said.

28 June 2017 • 12:04 AMT
Yahoo Mail debuts complete overhaul, unveils Yahoo Mail Pro

There are also new stationary opinions, and the ability to use Twitter’s emoji set from their open-source library.